Norway Chess 2013 Round 7

The fierce competition continued at the Norway Chess 2013 tournament, with three more decisive games in round 7.

The heartache continued for Teimour Radjabov, as he was swept aside by Vishy Anand with the black pieces. Radjabov has also withdrawn from the next FIDE Grand Prix event for undisclosed personal reasons.

Magnus Carlsen won with the black pieces, beating his compatriot Jon Ludvig Hammer to score his third win in succession. However, Sergey Karjakin kept his nose ahead in the standings by beating Hikaru Nakamura in a Najdorf Sicilian which was the last game of the day to finish.

@Morphy147, Carlsen does not always grind out opponents in endgame, that is why I disagree with you. Carlsen has beaten top level players before the endgame is even reached many times, take a look at some examples:

Um..anyway both players are brilliant and I'm just tired of people bagging out Carlsen for unfathomable political reasons. I don't think anyone on chess.com has the knowledge or ability to criticise a superGM.

I am not sure if a break what Radjabov really needs now. Look what happened to Leko after he took one. Breaks are not necessarily help you to improve. Having an intensive training camp would be better.

Carlsen have killer instinct? I don't see anything like that in him, he is a pure positional player. I feel current Super Grand masters are not like earlier, since they are so weak in endgames. Example its virtually impossible to beat players like Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Karpov i can add in this league Aronian also, but others are not to the par in endings. Gelfand and Ivanchuck also plays well in endings but they often get into time pressure and there is chance for loosing the game.

In the same time Carlsen is a very good player, but the same time he is not invicible to beat him. Ivanchuck and Svidler beaten him in the candidates match.

Only Kasparov have the killer instinct, now Anand trying to bring his lost glorious killer instinct again. He his showing it in this current tournament.

He his testing his tactical play in this tournament. It means in Novemeber we can expect high tactical match against Carlsen or he may misguide his opponent also in this tournament.

@Aaronsky Carlsen is an exceptional player, one of the best in the world and has a killer instinct but on what basis do u think he has better understanding than kramnik.Its just that kramnik is a very solid player who doesnot like to take risks whereas carlsen plays on taking risks and by pushing hard in objectively drawn positions.Thats why kramnik draws a lot and has lower rating than carlsen.If he has better understanding let me see if he can dominate vlady in a match and ofcourse he didnot reflect his better understanding against kramnik in the candidates.Kramnik effortlessly held him to a draw and with black he was suffering positionally and could barely escape with a draw.

vodkarov stop the carlsen hate and most of all stop trying to find a rationale to support your crazy ideas of carlsen being a mediocre player.

he wins just about every tourney he enters, what more do you want from him? how else is he to prove he is an exceptional player? he comes, he wins. ho comes again, he wins again. its simple really - no other player today does that, that makes him exceptional.

whenever he comes to a tourney he is the favourit to win it - not based on his rating, based on his past results.

give me the number of top level tourneys magnus has entered in the past three years and tell me how did he do in them....?

Morphy147 Carlsen has a better understanding obviously because he has achieved a higher rating at a younger age and it has been remarked upon by other great players such as Kasparov that he has an intuitive sense that sets him apart.

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